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Calculator News Article Archive

By Rick Bensene

Last Updated 12/30/2024

This page of the Old Calculator Web Museum is an archive of magazine, newspaper, and other published material relating to the history, development, products, and companies that were a part of the development of the calculator (most-specifically, electronic calculator) technology and marketplace. The items are arranged in chronological order. Some content in this archive may be under copyright protection. The curator has made reasonable efforts to assure that copyrights are not violated, but with old content like this, it is difficult to determine copyright status. Content is placed here in good faith. If any materials are found to be in violation, please contact the curator by clicking the EMail link above, and any such content will be immediately removed from this archive.


1945
Apr Article in Friden's Corporate Newsletter announcing the passing of founder, Carl Friden

1948
Jul Introducing the Transistor

1955
Nov Announcement of Librascope LGP-30 Computer (Design by Stanley Frankel)

1956
Mar Announcement of Agreement for Friden to Purchase Commercial Controls Corp.

1958
Apr Announcement of agreement for Smith Corona and Marchant merger

1961
Mar Clary announces the DAC-2500 Digital Arithmetic Center
Apr First known Announcement of Electrosolids' development of Transistorized Desktop Electronic Calculator
Jul Later Article discussing Electrosolids' development of Transistorized Desktop Electronic Calculator
Sep A short article announcing the acquisition of Ransom Research Inc. and Ransom Systems by Wyle Laboratories, Inc. [1-Sep]
Dec Announcement of agreement between Smith-Corona Marchant and Diehl Calculator Co. for SCM to market Diehl-made calculators in North America

1963
Jun Introduction of the Friden 6010 Computyper small computer system
Aug Announcement of agreement for acquisition of Friden, Inc. by Singer Co.

1964
Mar Article announcing the Mathatronics 4-24.
Jul Announcement article for the Friden EC-130.
Jul A short article announcing that Wyle Laboratories received a large contract from NASA including purchase of Wyle Labs Scientific calculator(s).
Aug A short article publicly announcing General Micro-electronics' development of a MOS 20-bit Shift Register chip, the first commercial MOS LSI device
Dec Monroe division of Litton Industries Announcement of their Monroe EPIC-2000 programmable printing electronic calculator

1965
Jan Introducing the Wang Laboratories LOCI-1 Logarithmic Computing Instrument
Feb A short News-byte Indicating that General Micro-electronics may show an IC-based "computer" at IEEE Convention in late March
May Article announcing Arthur Lowell's new job as Asst. to President and Acting Exec. Director of R&D at Autonetics
May Article announcing General Precision Inc.'s 50% share purchase of Royal Precision Corp.
Aug Announcing the SCM Cogito 240 and Cogito 240-SR calculators
Aug Announcing the Friden EC-132
Aug Article on state of the electronic calculator market
Oct Introduction of the Olivetti Programma 101.
Oct Article announcing the Victor 3900 electronic calculator at the BEMA show in New York, week of October 25, 1965.
Nov Early article announcing the Olivetti Programma 101 programmable electronic calculator.
Dec New Product Introduction: The Olivetti Programma 101 electronic calculator
Dec Introducing the Dero Sage 1 electronic calculator

1966
Jan Early article concerning the impending sale of General Micro-electronics to Philco Corp.
Feb Initial introduction article announcing the beginnings of the Wang 300-Series calculators (300/310 Models)
Mar Announcing the sale of General Micro-electronics to Philco Corp.
Apr Announcement of Mathatronics APS add-on for Mathatron 8-48 calculator
May Introducing the Data Acquisition Corp. DAC-512 Programmable Electronic Calculator
Jun Article announcing Wyle Laboratories purchase of its own common stock to settle litigation over acquisition of Liberty Electronics filed in 1962
Aug News Release concerning a program in Los Angeles school system using Wyle Labs WS-02 Scientific Electronic Calculators
Dec Article hinting that Hewlett Packard may be working on an electronic calculator
Dec Mathatronics announces the Mathatron Mod II calculator

1967
Jan Article stating that Hayakawa Electric (Sharp) is working on development of electronic calculators using ICs
Mar Grossly premature announcement article for the Wang 300-Series Simultaneous Electronics (SE) System
May Brief pre-announcement article for the USAC 10B small-scale IC-based electronic calculator distributed by Uchida Yoko
May A pre-announcement article concerning Sony's initial entry into the calculator market, the Sony ICC-500W
Jul Autonetics division of North American Aviation announces it will enter the custom MOS and SOS Large Scale Integration market
Aug Announcing the SCM Cogito 566PR calculator
Aug Wang Laboratories' Initial Public Offering Announcement on New York Stock Exchange [24-Aug]
Sep Article introducing the Canon 167 calculator
Nov Article announcing Casio's new magnetic core-based AL-1000 programmable calculator
Dec An article announcing Autonetics' first commercial Large Scale Integration (LSI) integrated circuits

1968
Jan Announcement of agreement between Nippon Calculating Machine Co. (NCM) and Wyle Laboratories for Wyle to design calculators for NCM
Mar Initial News release announcing the revolutionary HP 9100A programmable electronic calculator [11-Mar]
Mar An early A week later News Release in a periodical announcing the HP 9100A calculator [18-Mar]
Mar Later Article announcing the HP 9100A calculator
Apr Article announcing OEM agreement between Sharp and Burroughs for Sharp to make calculators for Burroughs
Apr Announcement of Canon 130S electronic calculator.
May A slightly later news release announcing agreement between Hayakawa Electric (Sharp) and Burroughs for Sharp to manufacture electronic calculators for Burroughs
May A Product Introduction Article announcing the HP 9100A Programmable Scientific calculator a few months after the formal intro of the calculator
May Article announcing Friden 1151 Programmable Printing Calculator
May Introduction article for the Wang 380 Programmer
May A somewhat later Article announcing agreement between Sharp and Burroughs for Sharp to make calculators for Burroughs
Jun An article citing Philco-Ford's end of production of the history-making Victor 3900
Jul A news-brief confirming the rumors relating to Philco-Ford canceling its contract with Victor Comptometer to put an end to the historical Victor 3900 MOS IC calculator.
Jul Article announcing availability of KM-220 computer based on Wang 360E calculating element
Jul Article announcing the Canon 161S and Canon 163 calculators
Aug Article announcing agreement between Nippon Calculating Machine Co. (NCM), and National Cash Register (NCR) for NCM to make calculators for NCR
Nov An article announcing that Hayakawa Electric Co. (Sharp) has built an experimental LSI-based electronic calculator
Nov Announcement of a new agreement between Computer Design Corporation (spin-off from Wyle Laboratories) and Nippon Calculating Machine Co. for development of a MOS/LSI-based electronic calculator
Dec The Autonetics division of North American Rockwell announces it will show a mock-up of an all MOS/LSI-based general purpose computer

1969
Feb Article Announcing the Friden 1113 electronic calculator
Feb Brief article introducing Friden's new Friden 1150 printing electronic calculator.
Feb News-brief concerning Nippon Electric Company's (NEC) development of a novel single-chip Nixie tube decoder/driver IC, combining MOS(logic) and bipolar(driver) transistors on the same chip
Feb Article Announcing the Wang 700 Advanced programmable electronic calculator
Mar A detailed article on the pre-production Hayakawa Electric Sharp QT-8D electronic calculator
Apr Autonetics announces formation of Microelectronics Products Division
Apr Announcing the SCM Cogito 414 electronic calculator
May Article announcing the groundbreaking Sharp QT-8D
Jun A brief article announcing that West Germany's Olympia has established an OEM agreement with Matsushita in Japan to develop and build a calculator for Olympia to sell under its brand.
Jul Dictaphone announces its line of Sanyo-made electronic calculators
Aug Announcement of the Monroe 820 electronic calculator
Sep News brief outlining Sanyo's request to MITI to import LSI IC's from US-based General Instrument

1970
Jan New Product Brief for the Sony ICC-2500 Programmable Electronic Calculator (formally announced in Oct, 1969).
Jul News Brief announcing US Government Services Administration (GSA) order of up to $4.5M of Wang Labs electronic calculators
Jul A news release introducing the Wang 100-Series electronic calculators
Aug Introduction of Electronic Arrays' 3300 PMOS 512x8 Mask-Programmed ROM
Nov Announcement of Electronic Arrays' S-100 LSI 6-Chip Calculator Chip set

1971
Jan Announcement of Busicom's development of calculator using Mostek's history-making single-chip LSI.
Feb Short news brief announcing that Electronic Arrays is forming a subsidiary called International
>>>   Calculating Machine, Inc. to manufacture and sell calculators using EA's calculator chip sets to OEM customers
Feb A new product announcement article for the Cintra 911 Statistician calculator.
Apr A brief newspaper article announcing the delivery of the first Wang Laboratories 3300 Timeshared BASIC minicomputer.
May Letter written by Tektronix President, Howard Vollum about the passing of his business partner, Jack Murdock. [16-May]
Jul Article announcing the completion of the acquisition of Cintra, Inc. from Physics International by Tektronix, Inc.
Aug Later article announcing the completion of the acquisition of Cintra, Inc. from Physics International by Tektronix, Inc.
Aug Tektronix News Release announcing price decrease and improved memory capability in Tektronix 909 and 911 calculators.
Sep Listing detailing Nortec Electronics' deal to produce calculator chip set for Omron
Sep Article announcing the acquisition of Unicom Systems, Inc., by American Micro-Systems, Inc. (AMI)
Oct Short article indicating that Electronic Arrays has sold its International Calculating
>>>   Machines subsidiary (ICM) to Lago Calc, Inc.
Nov Article announcing Texas Instruments' September introduction of its TMS1802 "calculator on a chip" IC.
Nov News-byte announcing an article in Popular Electronics magazine introducing the MITS 816 calculator kit

1972
Jan A later article announcing Texas Instruments' TMS1802 "calculator on a chip" Large Scale Integration(LSI) IC.
May Introduction of the Cal-Tex CT5005 single chip calculator IC
Jun Introduction of two new four-chip calculator chip sets by Electronic Arrays
Aug Short article announcing Casio's market-shaking Casio Mini handheld battery-powered electronic calculator
Sep Announcement of North American Rockwell's acquisition of Unicom from American Micro-Systems, Inc (AMI) [18-Sep]
Sep Announcement of Joint Venture between Singer and Hitachi for business machine marketing/manufacture
Oct Article announcing the Busicom 162DE electronic desk calculator

1973
Apr Introducing Electronic Arrays' new two-chip calculator chip-set, S-129
Jun Article announcing Sony's intention to end of production of electronic calculators
Aug Introduction of the Tektronix Model 21 and Model 31 programmable electronic calculators [2-Aug]
Nov Announcing Rockwell International's acquisition of Lamson Industries, Ltd. (UK) Calculating/Computing-Related Businesses
Dec Introducing the Hewlett Packard 9821A calculator

1974
Aug Announcing the Monroe (Calculating Machines) Division of Litton Industries exclusivity agreement with Compucorp

1975
Feb Very short published note indicating Rockwell's shutdown of its Unicom Systems, Inc. calculator subsidiary [1-Feb]
Feb Somewhat late news-byte noting the voluntary filing of bankruptcy by Bowmar Instruments [10-Feb]
Aug Brief announcement of the liquidation of Hugle International [30-Aug]

1976
Jan Texas Instruments introduces the SR-60 programmable desktop calculator
Oct Texas Instruments announces the updated version of its SR-60 programmable calculator, the SR-60A.

1981
Apr Nippon Electric Co., Ltd. (NEC), Tokyo, Japan, consolidates US subsidiaries (Electronic Arrays, NEC Microcomputers, and NEC Electron),
>>>   with each subsidiary becoming a division under newly-created NEC Electronics USA, Inc.

1983
Sep Compucorp, Inc. announces the intention to purchase the Monroe Division of Litton Business Systems


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